Example sentences of "she had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |
| 2 | But ever since the day when she had faced her own fears she had held fast to her principles . |
| 3 | For months , she admitted later , she had faced the possibility of her son being badly injured against such a highly-rated opponent , but now Lennox was not only the winner but emerged with hardly a mark on his body . |
| 4 | Once she had faced up to that , it was an easy decision . |
| 5 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 6 | Bursting into her life with a devastating charm , he had undermined her defences with skill , until she had faced him as defenceless as a de-shelled crab , and he had destroyed her illusions with the cruel indifference of a natural predator . |
| 7 | She had faced worse , after all . |
| 8 | She had faced a certain amount of humiliation again at the hands of that wretched Marie , but the thing that stayed in her mind was the feel of Alain 's arms and the tang of his skin . |
| 9 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 10 | She could no longer hide from the truth she had faced yesterday . |
| 11 | She had not felt it since her days of poverty , when she had faced the world alone ; it was something different from the polished ruthlessness that money had brought ; it was brighter-eyed , more truculent . |
| 12 | Even when Liz had come over for Mr Harding 's funeral , which had taken place just over a year ago , Laura had n't felt able to explain all of the difficulties she had faced . |
| 13 | The french windows were damp and warped in their frames , and she had to heave with her shoulder against the door to get one open . |
| 14 | She had revealed that she was surrounded by the spirits of her four dead children , her parents , and a host of spirit youngsters through whom she operated when she was on This Side . |
| 15 | She had revealed a core belief before even sitting down ! |
| 16 | Afraid lest she had revealed too much , she added quickly , ‘ Tell me about your visit to Maythorpe House . ’ |
| 17 | When she had revealed that she was staying here , he had simply decided to hook up and join on . |
| 18 | And science , she had revealed the day after they had met , was a total mystery to her . |
| 19 | She had to control her breathing as she looked into his face . |
| 20 | And when the only remaining one within this living real-nightmare-dream who felt real to her was threatened , she had to act . |
| 21 | She had to act before he killed her or her child . |
| 22 | The mother by this time had not acted upon the terms of the ‘ settlement , ’ as it had been termed , by which she had undertaken to commence divorce proceedings . |
| 23 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 24 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 25 | She had undertaken to contact him by the end of next week to report what progress she had made and he did not doubt she would do so , for she was a woman of her word . |
| 26 | Miss Waterson said she had undertaken the study after her sister-in-law had difficulty in deciding where to have her baby as she had only anecdotal evidence on which to base her choice . |
| 27 | Tallis wondered if she had undertaken her own form of self-mutilation . |
| 28 | Benny was also putting off telling her own parents about the accident , but she had to decide which of the two nuns to talk to on Eve 's behalf . |
| 29 | She had to decide what to do . |
| 30 | In the meantime , she had to decide what to do . |